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Learning to rank music tracks using triplet loss

Information Retrieval 2020-05-28 v1 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Sound Audio and Speech Processing

Abstract

Most music streaming services rely on automatic recommendation algorithms to exploit their large music catalogs. These algorithms aim at retrieving a ranked list of music tracks based on their similarity with a target music track. In this work, we propose a method for direct recommendation based on the audio content without explicitly tagging the music tracks. To that aim, we propose several strategies to perform triplet mining from ranked lists. We train a Convolutional Neural Network to learn the similarity via triplet loss. These different strategies are compared and validated on a large-scale experiment against an auto-tagging based approach. The results obtained highlight the efficiency of our system, especially when associated with an Auto-pooling layer.

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@article{arxiv.2005.12977,
  title  = {Learning to rank music tracks using triplet loss},
  author = {Laure Prétet and Gaël Richard and Geoffroy Peeters},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.12977},
  year   = {2020}
}
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